And Just Two More...

The hand on the left is the original zentangle.  I inked in the background.  The one on the right has been inverted on the computer. The contrast is interesting and I can think of many posssibilities.

 

February Sketchbook Drawings Part 2

The February theme on the Sketchbook Challenge is Opposites.   The first vision that popped into my mind was Big and Small.  Here is my interpretation.  

Then I drew a lot more hands.  Here's my elderly hand:

February Sketchbook Drawings Part I

Earlier this month I saw the video on the Drawing Doodle Game posted by Diana Trout on the Sketchbook Challenge website, and it appealed to me a lot because  it sounded so relaxing.  So I tried

doodle of my own.  Here's the result:

 It is hardly riveting, but it was therapeutic and fun.

About the same time, I attended a Fiber Arts Alliance meeting where a member, Sally Fargo, shared a  ZenTangle she had reproduced on fabric, and one of the ZenTangle books.  I came home and looked at lots of ZenTangles online and then I tried some of my own.  Oops--it is like eating peanuts.  You can't do just one.  It does have a zen-like meditative component which is something I have needed in my life the past few weeks.

Here are a couple of my 'zentangles'.  Maybe I will share more of them later.

Deconstructed Screen Printing on Fabric

  Another thing I tried last summer (but never found time to blog about) was deconstructed screen printing on fabric with thickened procion mx dyes.  I bought the wonderful DVD set by Kerr Grabowski.  She's a thorough teacher and the DVD tells you everything you need to know, presented with humor and lots of inspiration.  I produced less than stellar results with my first tries, but it was really, REALLY fun.  When our weather warms up again so that I can play with dyes outdoors, I am going to do some more of this!   Meanwhile here are some pix of just a few of last summer's tries.

A Pair of Pears

Here's my latest post to the sketchbook challenge.  A pair of pears to remind me how I highly prize fresh  fruit in winter.  When my mother was a little girl in the western NC mountains in the first decade of the 1900s, Santa Claus would leave one orange in the stocking of each child in her family, and it was a huge treat because they couldn't go to a store and buy fresh fruit the way that we do 100 years later.

This sketch was done with a child's set of water soluble wax pastels on a piece of watercolor paper.
I ate one of the 'models' for this sketch for lunch today. Delicious.

More Sketches

Here are numbers two and three of my sketchbook challenge.  No, they aren't perfect, but I am having a good time and loving what everyone else is putting on the Flickr group.

Free Clip Art

A great source for copyright free clip art images is Dover.  If , like me, you have no need for full books of clip art images, Dover offers free sample images on their web site, and  if you want to, you can also sign up for an email that will bring you periodic samplers of a variety of downloadable images  Cllick here to visit Dover's sampler page.